Dev console

Perhaps SDL_console might be useful?

This is nifty, however it doesn't quite fit what I need. Since last night I found some code to pop up a window with a single line text edit box, which is actually precisely what I need. The following code sums it up:

Create the window

CreateWindow( "edit", "",
WS_VISIBLE|WS_CHILD|WS_BORDER|ES_AUTOHSCROLL|ES_AUTOVSCROLL,
0, 0, nClientWidth, nClientHeight, hwnd, (HMENU)nEditID, hInstance, NULL);

Query the window

GetDlgItemText(hwnd, nEditID, szString, nMax);

The reason I can't use the sdl console is because I am using SDL only for input, while Ogre is being used for rendering. I could use CEGUI, however I don't want the console to be attached to the rendering window, I want to be able to use the dev console to create rendering windows and anything else that I want. So basically I settled in a win32 console with a text entry box. So what I suppose is needed at this point is a way to create this window with needing the hwnd and hInstance items, as well as a way to process any received entry messages.

You can use GetModuleHandle(NULL) to obtain the hInstance for the current process.